25 Quotes From Annie Leibovitz

25 Quotes From Annie Leibovitze

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

— Annie Leibovitz

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

— Annie Leibovitz

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

— Annie Leibovitz

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

— Annie Leibovitz

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

— Annie Leibovitz

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

— Annie Leibovitz

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

— Annie Leibovitz

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

— Annie Leibovitz

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

— Annie Leibovitz

I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.

— Annie Leibovitz

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

— Annie Leibovitz

I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

— Annie Leibovitz

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

— Annie Leibovitz

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

— Annie Leibovitz

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

— Annie Leibovitz

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

— Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

— Annie Leibovitz

There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.

— Annie Leibovitz

As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.

— Annie Leibovitz

I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.

— Annie Leibovitz

My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.

— Annie Leibovitz

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

— Annie Leibovitz

I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.

— Annie Leibovitz

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

— Annie Leibovitz

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

— Annie Leibovitz

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